Langston
Langston reached its high-water mark in 2016 at number 652, and has been recorded 7,664 times in all. Its origin is given as a surname. In 2025 it ranked 999th. About 7,200 Langstons are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 10.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Langston boys named Langston
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 7,664
- Estimated living today
- 7,200
- Median age today
- 10
- Peak year
- 2016
- Best rank
- 652nd
- Rank in 2025
- 999th
- First recorded
- 1912
- Girls / boys
- 345 / 7,319
How old the living Langstons are
born that year still alive today
Of the 7,664 babies given the name since 1912, about 7,200 are alive — 94 in every hundred. Roughly 5,400 of them are children and 150 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2015 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Where the name comes from
Origin a surname
From Old English lang (“long, tall”) + stan (“stone”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Notable Langstons
- Langston Hughes (1901–1967)American writer and social activist
- Langston Galloway (born 1991)American basketball player
People named Langston with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Langston is most common
Across the country Langston is recorded 1.47 times per 100,000 births, so these are the states above that line. Only states with 50 or more recorded Langstons are ranked here: below that a handful of births makes a rate that moves on chance alone.
Counts favour the big states, which is why the same few lead this list for almost every name.
Births recorded in each state since 1910. A name given to fewer than five babies in one state in one year is not published, so a name's quietest states are missing from this rather than showing zero. Browse names by state.
Names of 2016
The most popular boys’ names the year Langston peaked:
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Langston against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
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Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.